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To these blemishes may be added faulty arrangement or ἀνοικονόμητον, the faulty use of figures or
ἀσχημάτιστον, and the faulty collocation of words
or κακοσύνθετον. But, as I have already discussed
arrangement, I will confine myself to the consideration of figures and structure. There is also a fault
known as Σαρδισμὸς, which consists in the indiscriminate use of several different dialects, as, for
instance, would result from mixing Doric, Ionic, and
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even Aeolic words with Attic.
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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